SUPREME COURT TRIALS.
dAMififf, March 13, The 9apfeme€?#ttrt sittings Were opened tcwtey by Mt Justice William*. There Ware tfnty fdtltf eh&WM, John Williams, & ebWeed Mafi, fat at Wainiate, pl&ded "Goilty,' , and was sentenced to five fears' jtenal S6rvitddfi. John Lewis and Edward Morgan Wefet acquitted on the charge of robbery with violence. Win. fid wards tot a similar offends was convicted, and sentenced to nine months. A man named Carson under the in* flnence of drink Wka rdbbed Of his wsftfo, and about thfee w6efcs a<te^trafde JBdwards cold it to a hnd he Could not accotuli lor ite coming Into his poaslesaion. lane Brown for the robbery of a parse from a drunken man was tfonvictea, and ientenoed to two yean* imprisonment. AUCKLAND, March 12, At theSopreme Ooarfc to-day, the Grand Jnry found no taroe bill on the charge of murder against Michael M'Derroott, but found a true bill on a charge of manslaughter.
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7257, 13 March 1889, Page 5
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